With few study books exisiting for the Vibraphone Emmanuel Séjourné ensures that this gap is filled with his excellent 19 Musical Studies for Vibraphone. The fifth volume contains 19 little pieces of increasing difficulty. Each piece is in a differing style from jazz swing funk and blues to contemporary music neo-classical and imitations of composers such as Erik Satie and J. S. Bach. Moreover each short piece tackles a different technical problem. All these features of Séjourné's 19 Musical Studies combined make for an excellent study book for Vibraphone players.

Here is the definitive guide to chordal playing for the contemporary vibraphonist. Includes material on: voicing selection chord-member selection use of extensions and alterations voice leading inversion selection and more. The accompanying CD contains demos and play-along tracks with notated charts featuring standard chordal progressions in the following styles: fast